http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ WordPress MU Forums Topic: Real time failover backup / sync database and files? en Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:27:02 +0000 http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13983#post-84582 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:04:12 +0000 ebiladdress 84582@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I would setup RoboCopy to run for the file migration and then you should be able to automate database sync with tools specific to that.</p> <p>I would not recommend trying to tie the replication into the site as this creates a vulnerability in your process.</p> <p>In point, I'd do it all serverside with triggers, checks and stops.</p> <p>Eric </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13983#post-81157 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:20:16 +0000 versatilist 81157@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm new to wordpress mu and already in need of a backup solution.. It seems these blogs are more prone to 'attention' than some of the other lesser known systems.</p> <p>I'm looking for a way to replicate the wordpress MU setup onto another server (from another host company) so that I can have an active domain monitoring dns service switch over to the backup should the primary one stop responding.</p> <p>Can you point me to a good resource guide on how to get this done, and the best way to do it given the single-database structure of wordpress mu. On a side note, I've noticed that wpmu seems to be locking files (ex .htaccess) so I hope that all of the flat files can be moved by simple rsync/sftp.. </p> <p>Suggestions? Ideas? How do you backup? </p>